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the good news

vmware server / fusion / player / tools now DYNAMICALLY resizes x/ubuntu vm windows (just like the vmware tools video driver for windoz)

the bad news

my fonts are so small i cant read them !

screenshots


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VMware Server Minimal VM User Roles & Permissions


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VMware Server VIWA Screenshots

Posted by osde.info Feb 20, 2009

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VMware Server Guest Options

Posted by osde.info Feb 20, 2009

VMware Server Guest Options


Choose compatibility level 6 if you want to run your xubuntu VM on fusion


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Choose File Options split into 2G disks for maximum compatibility


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VMware Server VIWA, VMware Server Console errors solutions and fixes


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illegal op

illegal operation in plugin
the plugin performed an illegal operation
you are strongly advised to restart firefox

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solution : restart firefox

vmware remote console

error opening the remote virtual machine
login failed due to bad username or password
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solution : try again

task failed

power on virtual machine failed to complete
a general system error occured : unknown error
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solution : wait 5 mins

not enough physical memory

msg.memSched.autoScaleDown : not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine
do you want to temporarily reduce the memory size of the virtual machine
do _nothing
_reduce memory
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solution : logout of gnome on your host reduce vm memory restart vm

another task is in progress

the server response included one or more errors
if these problems persist, please contact your system administrator
taskinprogress : operation failed since another task is in progress
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solution : wait 5 mins

error reconfigure

reconfigure this virtual machine
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solution : wait 5 mins

vmware remote console plug-in is not installed

vmware remote console plug-in is not installed or could not be found
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solution : install vmware remote console plug-in

managedobjectnotfound

the server response included one or more errors
if these problems persist, please contact your system administrator
managedobjectnotfound : operation failed
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solution : check user group role & permissions

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How to install VMWare Server 2.0.0 on X/Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and run X/Ubuntu 8.04 LTS guests in under two hours

Hardware

  • Pentium III or 4 with 512M+ ram (4G recommended) for host
  • Pentium III or 4 with 256M+ ram for VIWA browser access
  • CD / ISO for building VM

Login as user
  • Enable root account
  • logout

Login as root
  • create /vmfs directory
  • create /vmfs/iso directory
  • copy (xubuntu) isos into /vmfs/iso directory
  • download and untar vmwsvr.tgz
  • run vmware-config.pl
  • navigate to localhost:8222
  • login to VIWA as root
  • create VMs-only role (with minimal permissions)
  • add user to this role
  • logout

Minimal Permissions
  • datastore
  • network
  • host
  • virtual machine
  • resource

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Login as user

  • navigate to localhost:8222
  • login to VIWA as user
  • create vm
  • point to your xubuntu 8.04 iso image
  • download and install vmware console firefox plugin
  • restart firefox
  • login to VIWA as user
  • start vm

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VIZZ.INFO

Posted by osde.info Feb 20, 2009

VIZZ.INFO started out providing Virtualisation Information (with a free libre open source focus) at http://vizz.info/ but we have now decided to spread our wings to the VMware blog community ! Lets see how it goes !

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http://vizz.info/2006/08/vmware-vi3-esx3-has-arrived/

vmsnap and vmrestore that were used on ESX 2.x to backup (snap) and restore virtual machines & vmdk’s have been replaced in ESX 3.x with the vcbMounter and vcbRestore commands

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VI / ESX 3 VM file naming tips

Posted by osde.info Feb 20, 2009

VMware VI / ESX VM & VMDK file naming tips

1) avoid spaces and brackets ( ) and other nasty characters in .vmx and .vmdk names
2) use a common suffix for each VM's name, vm.vmx, /vmfs/vm subdirectory AND vm.vmdk disks !

ie
orac
/vmfs/volume/storage/orac/
orac.vmx
oraca.vmdk
oracb.vmdk

3) give real names to VMDKS instead of accepting default _N suffix

ie
DISKC.VMDK
DISKD.VMDK
DISKE.VMDK

or
diskos.vmdk
disksw.vmdk
diskdb.vmdk

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PHASE 1

  • Setup NFS
  • Setup SSH RSA login
  • Setup mailx
  • Setup host,username,password in /etc/vmware/backuptools.conf

PHASE 2

Create vcbBack.sh (on masteresx)

#
VMIMBK=/vmimages/vmbk
mount slaveesx:$VMIMBK $VMIMBK
rm -rf $VMIMBK/$1
vcbMounter -a name:$1 -r $VMIMBK/$1
umount $VMIMBK

Create vcbRes.sh (on slaveesx)

#
VMIMBK=/vmimages/vmbk
CATALOG=$VMIMBK/$1/catalog
echo $CATALOG
sed 's/masteresx\.com/slaveesx\.com/' $CATALOG > $CATALOG.rest
vcbRestore -s $VMIMBK/$1 -a $CATALOG.rest -b overwrite

Create vcbCron.sh (on masteresx)

#

/root/vcbBack.sh $1
ssh slaveesx -c "/root/vcbRest.sh $1"

Create cronjob

#
0 * * * * /root/vcbCron.sh myvm1 | smtp=upstream /usr/local/bin/mailx -s "<subject>" <name@domain>


Sit back and enjoy being a SysAdmin

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To get the most out of your guest VMs and backup and restore them using VMware Consolidated Backup in the most reliable way you should install VMware Tools.

As well as providing better mouse & video drivers it provides an API to the host providing IP, clock information and installs VM startup, VM shutdown, VM freeze & VM thaw scripts /usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script and /usr/bin/post-thaw-script.

http://vizz.info/2007/11/quiesce-your-live-vmware-vms-before-you-snapshot-them/

These scripts are required to quicese the guest services so a reliable quiescent redo / snapshot can be made by VCB.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_vm_backup.pdf

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VMWare Player commands that let you force certain virtual network adapters to use certain subnet, dhcp and nat settings:

vmnetcfg.exe is a gui while vmnetlib.exe is for the command line

cd \temp

copy "\vnetlib.exe" .

start /wait vnetlib -- set vnet vmnet1 addr 192.168.201.0
start /wait vnetlib -- stop dhcp

start /wait vnetlib -- update dhcp vmnet1
start /wait vnetlib -- start dhcp
start /wait vnetlib -- update adapter vmnet1
start /wait vnetlib -- stop nat
start /wait vnetlib -- set vnet vmnet8 addr 192.168.208.0

start /wait vnetlib -- stop dhcp

start /wait vnetlib -- update dhcp vmnet8
start /wait vnetlib -- start dhcp
start /wait vnetlib -- update nat vmnet8
start /wait vnetlib -- start nat
start /wait vnetlib -- update adapter vmnet8

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